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With the 2015 Ford Mustang and the nameplate’s 50th anniversary approaching, the automaker has released more details about the shifting popularity of the pony car’s exterior paint colors. As styles have changed over the past five decades, so have color preferences, and Ford has revealed what color is the most popular on Mustangs today.

The Mustang and its color palette have never been conventional. While 2015 Ford Mustang and the nameplate’s 50th anniversary approaching, the automaker has released more details about the shifting popularity of the pony car’s exterior paint colors. As styles have changed over the past five decades, so have color preferences, and Ford has revealed what color is the most popular on Mustangs today. The Mustang and its color palette have never been conventional. While white is the most popular automotive color today, black accounts for 28 percent of Mustangs sold, making it the most popular color available. In contrast, only 1.5 percent of Mustangs sold from 1967 to 1973 were black. While green and blue hues were popular in the 1960s, red is currently second only to black. With 21 percent of all Mustangs ever built painted red, it is the most popular color overall. Green has reappeared on special-edition models such as the Mustang GT Bullitt, while sales of blue Mustangs have been boosted by colors such as Grabber and Kona blues. Popular on the first generation Mustang, yellow has reappeared over the years on limited-production Mustangs such as School Bus Yellow offered on the Mustang Boss 302. While brown tones were popular in the 1970s, the last brown Mustang was offered in 1989. The Mustang has also been available in special-edition colors such as Playboy Pink in 1967 and the 2004 SVT Cobra’s color-shifting Mystichrome. “Our Mustang owners are passionate about their cars, and the exterior paint color they choose invokes an emotional response to the vehicle,” said Melanie Banker, Ford Mustang marketing manager, in a release. Check out the infographic that shows the top three popular Mustang paint colors over the last five decades as well as various Mustang colors in the gallery below. Source: Ford “>white is the most popular automotive color today, black accounts for 28 percent of Mustangs sold, making it the most popular color available. In contrast, only 1.5 percent of Mustangs sold from 1967 to 1973 were black. While green and blue hues were popular in the 1960s, red is currently second only to black. With 21 percent of all Mustangs ever built painted red, it is the most popular color overall.

Green has reappeared on special-edition models such as the Mustang GT Bullitt, while sales of blue Mustangs have been boosted by colors such as Grabber and Kona blues. Popular on the first generation Mustang, yellow has reappeared over the years on limited-production Mustangs such as School Bus Yellow offered on the Mustang Boss 302. While brown tones were popular in the 1970s, the last brown Mustang was offered in 1989. The Mustang has also been available in special-edition colors such as Playboy Pink in 1967 and the 2004 SVT Cobra‘s color-shifting Mystichrome.

“Our Mustang owners are passionate about their cars, and the exterior paint color they choose invokes an emotional response to the vehicle,” said Melanie Banker, Ford Mustang marketing manager, in a release.

Check out the infographic that shows the top three popular Mustang paint colors over the last five decades as well as various Mustang colors in the gallery below. Tells us your favorite Mustang color of the past 50 years below.

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